Deuteronomy 22

Deuteronomy 22

1You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them . You shall surely bring them again to your brother.

2If your brother isn’t near to you , or if you don’t know him , then you shall bring it home to your house , and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it , and you shall restore it to him .

3So you shall do with his donkey . So you shall do with his garment . So you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found . You may not hide yourself .

4You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way , and hide yourself from them . You shall surely help him to lift them up again .

5A woman shall not wear men ’s clothing , neither shall a man put on women’s clothing ; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God .

6If you come across a bird ’s nest on the way , in any tree or on the ground , with young ones or eggs , and the hen sitting on the young , or on the eggs , you shall not take the hen with the young .

7You shall surely let the hen go , but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you , and that you may prolong your days .

8When you build a new house , then you shall make a railing around your roof , so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there .

9You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed , lest all the fruit be defiled , the seed which you have sown , and the increase of the vineyard .

10You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together .

11You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together .

12You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself .[#22:12 or, tzitziot]

13If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her , hates her ,

14accuses her of shameful things , gives her a bad name , and says , “I took this woman , and when I came near to her , I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity ;”

15then the young lady ’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady ’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate .

16The young lady ’s father shall tell the elders , “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her .

17Behold , he has accused her of shameful things , saying , ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity ;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter ’s virginity .” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city .

18The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him .

19They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver , and give them to the father of the young lady , because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel . She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days .[#22:19 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 100 shekels is about a kilogram or 2.2 pounds.]

20But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady ,

21then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house , and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones , because she has done folly in Israel , to play the prostitute in her father’s house . So you shall remove the evil from among you .

22If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband , then they shall both die , the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel .

23If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city , and lies with her ,

24then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city , and you shall stone them to death with stones ; the lady , because she didn’t cry , being in the city ; and the man , because he has humbled his neighbor ’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you .

25But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field , and the man forces her and lies with her , then only the man who lay with her shall die ;

26but to the lady you shall do nothing . There is in the lady no sin worthy of death ; for as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him , even so is this matter ;

27for he found her in the field , the pledged to be married lady cried , and there was no one to save her .

28If a man finds a lady who is a virgin , who is not pledged to be married, grabs her and lies with her , and they are found ,

29then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady ’s father fifty shekels of silver . She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her . He may not put her away all his days .[#22:29 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.]

30A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.

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